234 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



314. Chippewas (Sioux) gathering wild rice. Scene near the source of the Saint 



Peter's (Minnesota) ; shelling their rice into their bark canoes, by bending 

 it over and whipping it with sticks. Painted in 1836. 



(Plate No. 278, page 208, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 Plate No. 278 is a party of Sioux, in bark canoes (purchased of the Chippeways), 

 gathering the wild rice, which grows in immense fields around the shores of the rivers 

 and lakes of these northern regions, and used by the Indiaus as an useful article of 

 food. The mode of gathering it is curious, and, as seen in the drawing, one woman 

 paddles the canoe, whilst another, with a stick in each hand, bends the rice over the 

 canoe with one, and strikes it with the other, which shells it into the canoe, which is 

 constantly moving along until it is filled. — G. C. 



315. Beautiful Prairie Bluffs. View near "Prairie la Crosse," above Prairie du 



Chien, Upper Mississippi. Painted in 1836. 

 (No plate.) 



316. Cap au 'lail (Garlic Cape), a bold and picturesque promontory on Upper Mis- 



sissippi. Painted in 1836. 



(Plate No. 250, page 144, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 Another also beautiful' scene. — G. C. 



(See No. 319.) 



317. Picturesque Bluffs, above Prairie du Chien, Upper Mississippi. Painted in 



1836. (No plate.) 



318. Pike's Tent, the highest bluff on the river, Upper Mississippi. Painted in 



1836. 



(Plate No. 249, page 143, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



Named for Lieutenant Pike, afterwards General Z. B. Pike. 



On our way after we had left the beautiful shores of Lake Pepin, we passed the 

 magnificent bluff called Pike's Tent, and undoubtedly the highest eminence on the 

 river, running up in the form of a tent, from which circumstance and that of its hav- 

 ing been first ascended by Lieutenant Pike, it has taken the name of Pike's Tent, 

 which it will doubtless forever retain. 



The corporal and I ran our little craft to the base of this stupendous pyramid, and 

 spent half a day about its sides and its pinnacle, admiring the lovely and almost 

 boundless landscape that lies beneath it. 



To the top of this grass-covered mound I would advise every traveler in the coun- 

 try, who has the leisure to do it, and sinew enough in his leg, to stroll awhile, and 

 enjoy what it may be difficult for him to see elsewhere. — G. C. 



319. View of Cornice Rocks and Pike's Tent, distant seven hundred and fifty 



miles above Saint Louis, on Upper Mississippi. Painted in 1836. 

 (Plate No. 316, page 144, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 Cap au Vail (Garlic Cape), about twenty miles above Prairie du Chien, is another 

 beautiful scene, and the Cornice Rocks, on the west bank, where my little bark rested 

 two days, till the corporal and I had taken bass from every nook and eddy about them 

 where our hooks could be dipped. To the lover of fine fish, and fine sport in fishing, 

 I would recommend an encampment for a few days on this picturesque ledge, where 

 his appetite and his passion will soon be gratified. — G. C. 



320. Lover's Leap, on Lake Pepin, Upper Mississippi; a rock five hundred feet 



high, where an Indian girl threw herself off a few years since to avoid 

 marrying the man to whom she was to be given by her father. Painted in 

 1836." 



(Plate No. 248, page 143, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



Along the shores of this beautiful lake (Lake Pepin, an expansion of the Uppei 



Mississippi River of four or five miles in width and twenty-five miles in length) we 



